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Historical views and folklore
58 related topics
Characterisation
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Historically significant events
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Causes
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Overview
- Earth's upper atmosphere Atmosphere of Earth
- Charged particles Charged particle
- Sun
- Atoms Atom
- Oxygen
- Nitrogen
- High-latitude regions Polar regions of Earth
- Arctic
- Antarctic
- Magnetosphere
- Solar wind
- Coronal holes
- Coronal mass ejections
- Plasma Plasma (physics)
- Electrons Electron
- Protons Proton
- Electron precipitation
- Atmosphere
- Thermosphere
- Exosphere
- Ionization
- Excitation Excitation (magnetic)
- Acceleration
- Planets Planet
- Solar System
- Brown dwarfs Brown dwarf
- Comets Comet
- Natural satellites Natural satellite
- Citizen science
- STEVE Steve (atmospheric phenomenon)
Etymology
- Pierre Gassendi
- Galileo Galilei
- Aurora Aurora (mythology)
- Boreas Boreas (god)
- Auster or australis Anemoi
- Greco-Roman mythology
- Meteorological phenomena
Characterisation
- Geomagnetic pole
- Magnetic pole Poles of astronomical bodies
- Magnetic midnight
- Elias Loomis
- Latitudes Latitude
- Antarctica
- Patagonia
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Falkland Islands
- Alaska
- Canada
- Iceland
- Greenland
- Faroe Islands
- Scandinavia
- Finland
- Scotland
- Russia
- Geomagnetic storm
- New Caledonia
- South Africa
- Pilbara
- Western Australia
- Uruguay
- Carrington Event
- Tropics
- Expedition 28
- Madagascar
- Indian Ocean
Causes
- Earth's magnetosphere
- Bow shock
- Radiation belts Van Allen radiation belt
- Ionosphere
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Magnetic flux
- Magnetic reconnection
- Plasmoids Plasmoid
- Trapped particles L-shell
- Magnetic field lines
- Loss cone Magnetic mirror
- Pitch angle Pitch angle (particle motion)
- Plasma waves Waves in plasmas
- Scattering
- KeV Electronvolt
- Birkeland currents Birkeland current
- Electric load Electric power
- Alfvén waves Alfvén wave
- Ion gyroradius Plasma parameters
- KeV
- Photons Photon
- Atmosphere Earth's atmosphere
- Ionized
- Ground state
- Collisional quenching Quenching (fluorescence)
- Hydrogen
- Ohmic conductor Ohm's law
- Hall current
- Electrojet
- Kristian Birkeland
Interaction of the solar wind with Earth
- Corona Solar corona
- Magnetic storms Magnetic storm
- Interplanetary magnetic field
- Joan Feynman
- Explorer 33
- Michael Faraday
- Dynamos Dynamo
- Dynamo effect Dynamo theory
- Field lines (lines of force) Magnetism
- Parker spiral Eugene Parker
- South magnetic pole
- Magnetopause
- THEMIS
- Magnetospheric substorms Magnetospheric substorm
Extraterrestrial auroras
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Gauss Gauss (unit)
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Cassini Cassini–Huygens
- Galileo Galileo (spacecraft)
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Io Io (moon)
- Magnetosphere Magnetosphere of Jupiter
- Volcanism
- Europa Europa (moon)
- Venus
- Mars
- Mars Express
- Terra Cimmeria
- Mars Global Surveyor
- Mercury Mercury (planet)
- Mariner 10
- MESSENGER
- BepiColombo
- 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- Rosetta Rosetta (spacecraft)
- Far-ultraviolet Far ultraviolet
- Coma Coma (cometary)
- Photodissociation
- Photoionization
- Exoplanets Exoplanet
- Hot Jupiters Hot Jupiter
- Weather
Historically significant events
- Diary
- Kyoto
- Royal Society
- Magnetometer
- Kew Observatory
- Carrington Richard Christopher Carrington
- Solar flare
- The New York Times
- Boston
- American Journal of Science
- Coronal mass ejections Coronal mass ejection
- Telegraph Electrical telegraph
- Geomagnetically induced current
- Electromagnetic field
- Portland, Maine
- Battery Battery (electricity)
- Series of solar storms May 2024 solar storms
- Ferdows
- Iran
Historical views and folklore
- Bamboo Annals
- Greek Ancient Greece
- Explorer
- Pytheas
- Seneca Seneca the Younger
- Naturales Quaestiones
- Cypress
- Clouds
- Tiberius
- Ostia Ostia Antica
- Pliny the Elder
- Natural History Natural History (Pliny)
- Cro-Magnon
- Cave paintings
- Japanese folklore
- Pheasants
- Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- National Institute of Polar Research
- Aboriginal Australians
- Gunditjmara people
- Victoria Victoria (Australia)
- Gunai people
- Bushfires Wildfire
- Dieri Diyari
- South Australia
- Ngarrindjeri
- Kangaroo Island
- Queensland
- Māori people
- Ui-te-Rangiora
In popular culture
- Episode
- The Simpsons 22 Short Films About Springfield
- Principal Skinner
- Superintendent Chalmers
Multimedia
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Top relations
related to Further reading · 84
Aurora → Akasofu, Alaska Geographic Series, Alaska Press, Alt URLSavage, Alv, American Geophysical Union, April, Archived, Aurora Borealis, Aurora Polaris, Auroras, Bengt, Berlin Heidelberg, Bibcode, Brief History, Candace Sherk, Carlson, Charles, Chian, Chree
related to Multimedia · 35
Aurora → Amazing, April, Archived, August, Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis, Aurora Photo Gallery, Auroras, December, DocumentaryVideo, Eastern Norway, Finnish Lapland, Full-Sky Aurora, Geomagnetic Storm, Ground-Level View, Iceland, ISS Timelapse, Night, Northern, Northern Light
related to Historically significant events · 30
Aurora → American Journal, August, Australia, Balfour Stewart, Between, Boston, Carrington, Carrington Event, Elias Loomis, EST, Europe, Friday, GMT, Great Auroral Exhibition, Hodgson, In, It, Japan, Japanese, Kew Observatory
related to Colours and wavelengths of auroral light · 19
Aurora → As, At, Blue, Both, Green, Infrared, Jupiter, Mars, N2, Other, Red, Saturn, Scarlet, STEVE, The, Ultraviolet, White, White/continuum, Yellow
related to Historical views and folklore · 18
Aurora → An, Bamboo Annals, BC, China, Cro-Magnon, Elder, Greek, He, It, Natural History, Naturales Quaestiones, Ostia, Pliny, Pytheas, Seneca, Spain, The, Tiberius
has cause · 16
Aurora → Acceleration, As, Both, Earth, Earth's, Geomagnetic, In, It, Occasionally, Once, Particle, Such, The, These, This, Ultimately
related to External links · 15
Aurora → Best Aurora, Current, Europe, Forecasting, IcelandAurora Borealis, Live Northern Lights, March, Northern Lights, Northern Lights LatitudeAurora Service, November, Official MET, Online Converter, Predicting Archived, The Northwest Territories, Wayback MachineSolar Terrestrial Data
related to Ionosphere · 14
Aurora → An, Armstrong, Birkeland, Bright, Due, Electric, Hall, In, Ionospheric, Kristian Birkeland, Schield, The, Winter, Zmuda
related to Changes with time · 12
Aurora → At, Auroras, Changes, Earth, International Geophysical Year, Later, Over, Sun, The, They, This, Until
related to Etymology · 11
Aurora → Auster, Boreas, English, France, Galileo Galilei, Gassendi, Greco-Roman, Pierre Gassendi, Roman, Sun, The
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Important terminology
auroras field atmosphere auroral magnetic solar wind electrons magnetosphere also particles earth geomagnetic lines observed earth's red light plasma oxygen
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora | is a | uncountable noun | 0.90 | text |
| Aurora | is a | glow from a radium mine | 0.90 | text |
| green | instance of | which then emit light of different colours | 0.80 | text |
| red | instance of | which then emit light of different colours | 0.80 | text |
| and purple | instance of | which then emit light of different colours | 0.80 | text |
| Alaska | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| Canada | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| Iceland | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| Greenland | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| the Faroe Islands | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| Scandinavia | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
| Finland | instance of | The aurora borealis is visible from areas around the Arctic | 0.80 | text |
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Aurora
Nodes267
Edges266
Triples351
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007491
Components1
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